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DOC NYC · 2020

DOC NYC 2020

Investigations

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12 films · 4 reviews

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Assassins

True crime meets global spy thriller in this gripping account of the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of the North Korean leader. The film follows the trial of the two female assassins, probing the question: were the women trained killers or innocent pawns of North Korea?

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Ryan White)

Baby God

Story of a fertility specialist who was impregnating women without their knowledge and one of his daughters, who set about trying to find her half-siblings.

(Year: 2020; Director: Hannah Olson; Stars: Quincy Fortier, Quincy Fortier)

Collective (Colectiv)

Review preview for Collective

Although he is dealing specifically with one instance in Romania, it's easy to see evidence of greater global malaise reflected here.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
Documentary considering the aftermath of a nightclub fire that exposed deep corruption in the Romanian healthcare system.

(Country: Romania; Year: 2019; Director: Alexander Nanau; Writer: Alexander Nanau, Antoaneta Opris)

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A Crime On The Bayou

Review preview for A Crime On The Bayou

Buirski has assembled an impressive set of historical sources but allows the story to unfold so naturally that it feels as if it were being told for the first time.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
The story of a lasting bond formed between an unjustly arrested Black man, Gary Duncan, and Richard Sobol, his young Jewish attorney.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Nancy Buirski; Stars: Isaac J Conner)

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The Dissident

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The Icarus Oscar-winner's analysis is robust and well-illustrated and he moves at a pace, even if the scoring from Adam Peters is over-insistent in places.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a global cover up perpetrated by the very country he loved.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Bryan Fogel; Writer: Bryan Fogel, Mark Monroe)

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Finding Yingying

The story of the search for a young Chinese student who disappeared whilst study sciences at a university in the US.

(Country: China, US; Year: 2020; Director: Jiayan 'Jenny' Shi; Stars: Ronggao Zhang, Lifeng Ye, Xiaolin Hou, Xinyang Zhang, Liqin Ye)

The Jump

In 1970, off the coast of Cape Cod, Lithuanian sailor Simas Kudirka jumped from his Soviet ship onto a US Coast Guard vessel seeking asylum. Denied refuge by the American crew, Simas was sentenced to a Soviet labor camp for treason, sparking an international cause célèbre.

(Country: France, Latvia, Lithuania; Year: 2020; Director: Giedre Zickyte)

Kings Of Capitol Hill

Examines the powerful pro-Israeli lobby AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), known for bipartisan loyalty in Washington, DC.

(Country: Israel; Year: 2020; Director: Mor Loushy; Writer: Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan; Stars: Doug Bloomfield, Tom Dine, Ada Horwitch, Steve Rosen, M.J. Rosenberg, Kieth Wissman, Doug Bloomfield, Tom Dine, Ada Horwitch, Steve Rosen, M.J. Rosenberg, Kieth Wissman)

Miracle Fishing

1994, Tom Hargrove was kidnapped in Colombia by the FARC. With a $6M ransom price and without support from the authorities, Tom’s wife and sons pick up the phone (and a Video8 camcorder) to negotiate directly with the largest terrorist group in the Western Hemisphere.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Miles Hargrove)

Missing In Brooks County

Review preview for Missing In Brooks County

To their credit, there’s no direct interrogation or intervention from Molomot and Bemiss at any point.

Matthew Anderson · 3.5 out of 5
Just 70 miles north of the Mexican-US border is a land haunted by ghosts. Brooks County, Texas is a barren landscape designed as a deterrent to illegal crossings, but people continue to attempt to cross, and many die trying.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Jeff Bemiss, Lisa Molomot)

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Neither Confirm Nor Deny

At the height of the Cold War, the CIA is tasked with an audacious covert mission: recovering a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the bottom of the ocean.

(Country: UK; Year: 2020; Director: Philip Carter)

'Til Kingdom Come

Investigates the political alliance between American evangelicals and Israel’s right wing, and their influence on the Trump administration’s foreign policy.

(Country: UK, Israel, Norway; Year: 2020; Director: Maya Zinshtein; Writer: Mark Monroe)